Taiji, you've managed to make me feel dirty again.

Blowing off steam, so bare with me.

This morning, one of those rare occasions when I get up at 4 am to take care of business, I finish ahead of schedule, and decide to step outside for a brief stretch and maybe one Taijiquan form session (since I felt too fucking lazy to jump rope or lift... not enough seep, fatigue, and all that other excuise crap.)

Luckily for me, there is a wide stretch of wooded area right outside my front door where I normally do my forms. So I'm out there by ~5, go through the typical BaDua Jin, chan si gong, and then move on to the TJQ form.

When I'm about half way through, this old lady who's walking some mop-looking dog stops to stare. I'm pretty used to this, so I finish up the form, and start walking towards my front door, when she asks me if I'm doing Tai Chi.

me: "yep, helps me start off the day."
her: "I think you got a few of the moves wrong, like the one with the hand, you know the one in the beginning?"

She does the peng, lu, ji, an, with the lu (rollback) completely extended and to far left side, and tells me that I need to reach all the way back to get a good stretch (yeah, I'm being a fucking nazi about it, sue me.)

So I ask her what would be the application for reaching that far back when performing Lu, she gives me this blank stare, "I just told you, it's for the stretch"

me: "what do you mean stretch?"
her: "you know, for the yoga? We have this great yoga class by where I work, you should come by and give it a try."